Born in Dayton, Ohio in 1953, Thomas Francis Murphy transitioned from various blue-collar jobs to acting after taking a class in Little Rock, AR. He has since carved out a niche in genre films, appearing in Ghost Shark (2013) as a key character who confronts the supernatural menace, and Jeepers Creepers 3 (2017), where he contributes to the film's eerie atmosphere. With a background in theater and years spent honing his craft on the East Coast, Murphy brings a unique depth to the cult cinema landscape.
Ghost Shark
When a great white shark eats the potential catch of a sport fisherman, the man and his daughter violently retaliate by sadistically torturing and killing the shark. The shark's corpse then sinks to the bottom of an underwater cave. It is subsequently resurrected as a ghost shark due to the cave's mysterious paranormal properties. Now hungry for revenge, the ghost shark eats his redneck killers, along with the captain of their boat. It eventually sets its sights on the rest of the local community in the seaside town of Smallport, Florida. Due to the great white's new spectral form, it can attack and kill anyone as long as there is even the smallest amount of water nearby. This allows it to emerge out of a swimming pool, a bathtub, a bucket, a metal pipe, and even a drinking cup. It kills many people in several locations. Though the terror is seemingly out of control, a group of young people trying to find answers end up having their pleas ignored. The local mayor is in the midst of his re-election campaign, and other authorities are unwilling to believe in the ghost. The teenager Ava Conte (Mackenzie Rosman) vows to put an end to the specter, after it devours her father and several friends. She teams up with a local lighthouse keeper, named Finch (Richard Moll). Finch is a drunken figure who claims to know the secrets to the shark's new-found form. Reportedly, when the cave was still above water, it was where a dying African-American slave put a voodoo curse on the entire town. After being arrested, harassed, threatened, and otherwise impeded in their struggles, the group then finally manages to lay the creature to rest once and for all. A coastal town is plagued by a supernatural man-eating shark. A ghost hunter joins forces with a sea captain to uncover the secrets of the area's dark past and find a way to exorcise the spectral predator.
